I like to wander over the rocky pavements, linger on an outcrop, examine each crystal on the rough surface, run my fingers over them, feel their texture, note their individual shapes. When I press my palms against their cool surface, I imagine that I am feeling some sense of their history, their unimaginable past, in …
Month: June 2019
We were getting sick of having our boat in the main marina in Nuuk. The draconian rules were designed to take advantage of every opportunity to squeeze more extortionate fees out of boat owners. Any change of ownership, common here where friends often co-own boats, required payment of a new full registration fee of about …
There’s a lot of weirdness in Greenland. Some of it is funny. Some of it is sad. Some of it is just weird. Here are some air transport-related snippets. The Camp Raven airstrip on the Greenland icecap, close to the site of the Dye-2 base, is a training airstrip for C-130 aircraft landings and acts …
I last visited Narsarsuaq years ago. It’s an abandoned American military airbase and a settlement entirely devoted to supporting the only airport (at present) in South Greenland. Out of season, like this, the Hotel Narsarsuaq has a edge of The Shining to it, with it’s enormous capacity, long brightly lit corridors and it’s distinct lack …